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Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has boosted the country's National Guard to 350,000, compared to the UK’s 73,000 troops and soldiers in Russia are also equipped with heavier weapons

Robert Romanov Woodland, 32, has been remanded in custody until March 5 on drug possession charges after he was charged with attempted large-scale production and sale of illegal drugs

Russian state TV company chief executive Kuban Zoya Konovalova, 48, has been found dead in her bedroom, with the corpse of her 52-year-old ex-husband Andrey Gubatiyka found close by

This comes as the "main doppelgänger” was separately named for the first time as Yevgeny Vasilyevich, originally a carpenter from Belarus

Berthed in a quiet corner of Canary Wharf, the Mirror visited the quay where Phi superyacht, owned by a Russian businessman, is still docked and saw numerous crew members onboard who were "hunkering down for winter"

At least 14 people in the Russian border town of Belgorod have been killed and another 100 seriously injured after Ukraine shells hit the area in response to yesterday's barrage by the Kremlin

Pavel Shuvalov, 55, who was branded the Tulun Maniac, was sent to fight in Ukraine instead of his 24-year jail term for two murders and raping 27 girls and women

The Atesh group, a Ukrainian partisan organisation, has spoken out following the sinking of the Novocherkassk warship, which has reportedly left Vladimir Putin fuming

Vladimir Putin had personally ordered a crackdown on "debauched" revellers days before a two-day party was held at nightclub Mutabor in Moscow, it has emerged

Anton Krasovsky is reportedly "seriously ill" after reports he was poisoned, less than a year after a Ukrainian court sentenced him in absentia to five years in jail over his genocidal remarks

In the Siberian village of Oymyakon temperatures regularly fall as low as -50C (-58F) - so cold the glasses to freeze to your face and people have to use outhouses

Ethan Hertweck, from California, was serving as a combat medic in the war-torn Donetsk region, when he was killed while trying to rescue a fellow soldier during a battle with Russian soldiers

Russia's military commanders are ignoring complaints from its troops that they were suffering bouts of fever, now believed to be brutal "mouse fever"

Several Russians have been killed by falling icicles during the freezing winter months enveloping the country, while blocks of ice have fallen on unsuspecting people walking nearby

Vladimir Putin and his officials have denied an "incomprehensible virus" is spreading across Russia - although pictures show ambulances waiting outside hospitals in the nation

Vladimir Putin's lead commander of strategic forces has warned the West that Russia is constantly in a state of "high readiness to perform tasks" referring to the country's nuclear capabilities

Miraculously the 18-year-old, who has not been identified in the Russian press, managed to survive the freak accident that saw him being dragged along the track by the juggernaut in Moscow

Vladimir Putin faced a press conference with a difference in Moscow, Russia, as members of the public were also allowed to pose the leader questions on a wide range of topics

Russia is set to move powerful weapons including its nuclear-capable Yars intercontinental missile system for war tests this month amid the belief it will soon win the war

A 63-year-old woman is the latest person to die from the cold in Russia, despite her dogs trying to keep her warm said a neighbour, as she was unable to afford heating

Anna Tsareva, deputy editor-in-chief of popular Russian newspaper, was found dead at her home by her father and initial police reports say there was no indication of a break-in

The lucky driver, Evgeny Shamko, reportedly only suffered from shock when his Volkswagen Touraeg plunged 40ft from the top of a multi-storey car park in Russia

The Utair Boeing-737 with 109 people on board was carrying 19kg of a "dangerous" unspecified radioactive material from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport bound for Khanty Mansiysk in western Siberia

Alexander Proskurin died in July 2019 after claiming he had been kept in a bear's den for a month - but doctors later revealed he had been a patient in neighbouring Kazakhstan

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Andrey Karlov, 62, was shot dead by Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, at a photo exhibition in the Turkish capital Ankara on December 19, 2016